SB2175enr 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2175 Enrolled LRB103 29288 RLC 55675 b

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is amended by changing Section 124A-5 as follows:

(725 ILCS 5/124A-5)

Sec. 124A-5. Judgment for costs of prosecution.

(a)Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), when When a person is convicted of an offense under a statute, or at common law, the court shall enter judgment that the offender pay the costs of the prosecution. The costs shall include reasonable costs incurred by the Sheriff for serving arrest warrants, for picking up the offender from a county other than the one in which he or she was convicted, and for picking up the offender from a location outside the State of Illinois pursuant either to his or her extradition or to his or her waiver of extradition.

(b) During the first 180 days following a person's release from a penal institution, a court shall not order the person to pay any outstanding fines, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding involving the person.

(Source: P.A. 89-234, eff. 1-1-96.)